USARAF, Togolese army partner for three-part unit movement course

Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Lance Pounds | Staff Sgt. Anthony Hamlin, an instructor for African Deployment Assistance Partnership Training- Ground from 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, gives preventative maintenance checks and services hands-on training to Togolese Soldiers, Jan. 25, at Lomé, Togo. Hamlin and other ADAPT-G trainers, from U.S. Army Africa and 142nd CSSB, provided more than 60 hours of unit movement officer training to Togolese Armed Forces Soldiers during a three phase initiative to enhance movement of personnel and equipment in support of peacekeeping operations. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Capt. Samuel Diaz Torres)  

VICENZA, ITALY

03.10.2016

Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds 

U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

VICENZA, Italy – U.S. Army Africa trainers provided more than 60 hours of unit movement officer training to Togolese Armed Forces Soldiers during a three-phase initiative to enhance movement of personnel and equipment in support of peacekeeping operations from Jan. 18 to March 11 at Lomé, Togo.

Trainers from USARAF’s African Deployment Assistance Partnership Training- Ground team worked with approximately 57 Togolese Soldiers in a unit movement operations course to enhance their military’s ability to deploy Soldiers throughout Africa. Students learned basic principles of U.S. deployment operations, said Capt. Samuel Diaz Torres, ADAPT-G Instructor with 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.

ADAPT-G training supports USARAF’s effort to provide information to direct activities and resources to enable African Partner nations to control national borders and regional instability.

The first phase focuses on logistics of training in Togo. Trainers identified event locations, coordination with partner nation counterparts and finalizing the mission plan for phase two. Phase two was a train-the-trainer event. Trainers, who are subject-matter experts of their field, instructed Togolese Soldiers in unit movement tactics and techniques. At the conclusion of phase two, trainers selected some of the Togolese Soldiers to return as instructors in phase three.

In the final phase, selected graduates worked as instructors in a Togolese version of the course. Subject-matter experts from 142nd CSSB also returned to provide oversight during the course, as well as an overall evaluation of course curriculum.

The curriculum included rail, seaport, airlift and convoy operations, as well as center of balance and unit movement plans. Togolese Soldiers observed demonstrations for these operations at the Port of Lomé and the Togo International Airport.

Upon completion, the partner nation will have the ability to develop and execute unit movement training courses of their own in support of peacekeeping operations in Africa, said Diaz Torres.

• Date Taken: 03.10.2016
• Date Posted: 03.11.2016 02:57
• Story ID: 191878
• Location: VICENZA, IT